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SOL. MILIEB, EDITOR 1M PUBLISHER. V
Tffn CONSTAT U 'HON AND THE "OBION.
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VOLUME XVL-NUMBER 25.1
TROY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1872.
WHOLE NUMBER,t805.
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ALICE CAKV.
wnrrTiER"STKiBnTE touebieuort.
TBI SUCKS.
Yon since (bat names to me before).
Two sisters souebt at eve my duor :
Two sons birds wandering Inn tketr nest,
A Cray a BTm Utffuc h west.
Timid and voung, the elder bad
Keen Uen
a saute tos sweetly end:
Tbe crown of lain that alt must wear
Too early pressed ner nuusigut oair.
Tet ere. tin annuuer ere crew Ions,
Her modest ffpo uwsewst with song;
V memory haunted ail hsr eroroa
Of clover fields ind atnpct birds.
Her dark dilating eves expressed
Tbe broad boruoas of the west i
ller speech dropped prairie Howell lbs fold
Of harvest wheat about ber rolled.
fun-doomed to sod' she seemed to me :
1 qornrd not with destiny I
I is? the trial and tbo need,
retail the more, I said. Cod speed!
What could I other than I did t
Ial4 I a slnglnz bird forbid f
Deny the sttrreulesri Kebuke
Tbs music of the furst brook I
She went with rooming from my door,
ilut left me richer than before ;
Tbenrrrurtb I knew ber voice of cheer.
The welcome of ber partial ear.
Vrara passed ; through all the land ber name
- pl.aaant bouseholil word became :
All felt behind the singer stood
A sweet and gracious womanhood.
llsr life was earnest work, not play j
Her tired reel cliraueu a weary way ,
And even through ber lightest strain
Ave beard an undertone vl pain.
Unseen of ber ber fair tunc grew,
Tbe good she did she rarely knew,
Ungueased of ber In lire tbe love
That rained its tears ber grave above.
When last I saw her, full of peace,
Hbe wslted for her great release:
And that old friend so aage and bland.
Our later franklin, held her hand.
rr all that patriot bosoms stirs
Had moved that woman's brart of hers,
And men who ladled in storm and sun
Vouud ber their meet companion,
Onr converse, from her suffering bed;
To beslthful themes of life she led;
Tbe out-dour world of bud and bloom
And light and sweetness tilled ber room.
Tet evermore sn auderthought
Of Inns to coute within us wrought.
And all tbe while we felt tbe atraln
Of the stroug will that conquered pain.
(tod gireth quietness at last!
The common way that all have passed
She wsut, with common yearnings fond.
To fuller life and love beyond.
Fold tbe rapt soul in your embrace.
Mydearoues! Uive the singer place !
1 o you, to her I know not here
1 lilt the alienee of a prayer.
For only thna oar own we find ;
Tbs gone before, the left behind,
AH mortal voices die between ;
The unheard reaches the unseen.
Again the blackbirds sing; the streams
Wake. Laughing, from their winter drcama.
And tremble in tlie April showers
The tassels of the maple (towers.
lint not fnan ber has spring renewed
The sweet fUirpri.es ul tbe won1;
And birds and dowers are lust ! bur
Who was tb. ir best iutcrjmrter :
Wist to shut eyes has God revealed 1
IVbat bear the ears that God has sealed 1
What undreamed beauty passing show
ltequitesthelossofall we know I
. silent land, to whiib we, move,
iJaHlga, if there alone be love;
And mortal need ran ne'er outgrow
What it ia waiting to bestow 1
() white soul ! from that far-off shore,
Host some sweet song tbe waiters o er.
Our fsitb confirm, our fears dispel.
With IheoM lolce we loved so well !
Select Jtot.
STUCK FAST.
Mum a vosr .imr mv scatiold accident, I goes
home one liight, "d Jlr"- Burge that's our iiex'
rm neighbor allows me something wrapped
it u iu flannel, all pink and creasy, and ery snuf
fy, a though it wanted its nose Mowed; which
couldn't be expected, for it hadu't got any to sig
nify. Aiu't it a littlo beauty I " she rays
Well, I coulrtii't nee as it vrai ; lint I didu't
like to say so, for I knew tny wife l'ully had born
rather reckoning on what she aid we ought to
have had more'n a year ago; sol didn't like, to
disappoint her, for 1 knew she Lay listening in
tlio nex' room.
Tolly always aaiil there ne Tcr was snch baby
na that one; and somehow it was taking to see
how her face used to light tin all over smiles
when she thought I warn't looking; and I knew
it nan all on account of the little 'un. She never
said die felt dull now : and when at home of s
night I used to think how uiy mates would laugh
to see me a handling tbe little thing that was al
ius being piishetl iuto my face to kiss; when I'm
blent if ever Iseo snch a voracious fun in my life:
it would hang on to you uose, lip, anyu beres
in a minute.
Una day, when it was about nine month old,
it was taken all of a sudden like, with fit
roily screamed to me to run for the doctor; for
it happened that I was on the club that week,
and at horns with a bail hand. I run for him,
and he (toon came; and then there was a warm
hath and medicine; but afterward, when I saw
the little thing lying on Folly's lap s still and
luiet, and with a dull film forming over its eyes,
1 felt that something was coming, though I flar
ed not tell her; and about 12 o'clock the little
thing suddenly started, stared wildly an instant,
n,i,l thull It V3JI nil OVP.C
My hand wam't bad any more mat ween; Kn
it took nil my time to try nnd cheer up my poor
heart-broken lass. She did take on dreadful,
night and day, till we bnried it; and then she
seemed to take quite a change, and begged of me
to forgive what she called her selfishnees, aud
wiped her eves once for all, as she said, and talk
about all being for the best, But she didn t
know that I lay awake of a night, feeling her cry
silently till the pillow was soaked with teara.
We buried the little one on Sunday, and on the
following Monday .morning I was clapped on to a
i..h that I didn't much relish, for it was the re-
? . . - a . .lHm Ana nl ilia)
bricking ota sswer ina .am uui.
Big as the opening was, -when I went to work
it made me shudder; there was the earth thrown
out; there was tbe rope at the side; there was
tbe boarding round; there it was for all the
world like a big grave, 'same as I'd stood by on a
little scale the day beforehand feeling; a little
bit low spirited, it almost seemed as though I
was going down Into my own, never to come up
any more. ,
Werry stupid and foolish ideas, says von far
fetched ideas. Werry likely, but that's what I
thought; and there are times when men has
werry strange ideas; and I'll tell yon for a fact
that something struck me wbea I went down
that hole as I shouldn't come np it again ; and I
didnt, neither. Why, the werry feel o' tbe cold,
damp place, made yon think o being buried, and
when a few bits of earth came and rattled down
apon the stajfe above my bead, as aoun as the
first start was over, it seemed to ma- se like the
rattling o the earth bat's few hours before upon
a little coffin, that something fell with a pat up
on my bright trowel, which, if it had been left,
would havo been a spot o' rust.
Nothing like work to put a fellow to rights;
and I sosu found that I isms feeling better, and
the strokes & toy trowel went, ringing away down
the sewer as I cdt the bricks In naif: and after
a bit I almost felt inclined to whistle; but I
didn't, for I kept on thinking of that solitary
face at Heme tne lace tuat alwaya nngnteiieu
up when I went back, and bad made snch a man
ot me as I felt I was, for it waa enongh to make
any man vain to be thought so much of. And
then I thought how dull she'd be, and how fond
she'd be o' looking at the drawer where all the
little things were Kept; and then I well, I ain't
ashamed of it, if lain a great hulking fellow I
took care that nobody saw what I was doing,
while I had a look at a little, bit of a shoe as I
hail in my pocket.
I didn't go home to dinner, fer it was too far
off; so I had my snack, and then went to it again
directly along with the others, for we was on the
piece. We had some beer sent down to ns, aud
at it we went till it was time to leave off; and I
must say as I was glad of it, and didu't much en
vy the fresh gang coming on to work all night,
though it might just ns "ell have liceu night
with us. i was last down, anil nail just put my
foot on the tirt round of the ladder, when I
heard something falling as it hit and jarred the
boards up'ards; and then directly after what
seemed to lie a brick, caught tne on the head, and
before I knew where In as, I was off the little
platform, splash don n in the cold rushing water,
that took me off and away yard iijhjii yard, be
fore I irot inv head above it: and then I was so
confused and half-stniiiied that I let it go nnder
again, aud had been carried ever so far before,
balf-dnnvtiMtl, I gained my legs and leaned, pant
ing and blinded, up against the slimy wall.
There I stood fur at least tell minutes, I should
suppose, shndderiug and horrified, with the
thick darkness' all around, the slimy, muddy
bricks against my hands, and the cold, rnsbiug
water beneath me, and my mind in that roufnseil
state that for a few minutes longer I didn't know
what I was going to do next, and wanted to per
snade myself that it was all a dream, aud I
shonld wake np directly.
All at once, though, I gave a jump, and in
stead o' being cold nith the. water dripping from
me, I turned all hut and burning, aud then again
cold and shuddery, for I had felt something
crawling on my shoulder, and then close against
my bare neck, nhen I gave the jump, and heard
chase by rue a light splash in the water a splash
which echoed through the hollow place, n bile.
half to frighten tbe beasts that 1 tuacieil innsi
be iu swarms around mn, lialf-wrunjr fmm me cs
a cry of fear nnd agony. I yelled out
"Hats!"
Tints tln-r were; for nliove the hollow "wall-
wasb, hurry linrry, wash-wash, hurry-hurry " of
the water, I could here little splashes, and a
scnfHing by me along the sides o' the brick work.
Von mav laugh at people's hair standing on
end, but Tkuow that there was then a creeping,
tinglig sensation iu the roots o' mine, as thnngh
sand was trickling amongst it ; a cloud seemed
to come over my mind, aud for a few moments I
believe I u as mail nudnith fear; and it was
only bv setting rov teeth hanl aud clenching tny
fists, that I kept from shrieking. However, I
was soon better, and readv to laugh nt myself as
I recollected that I could only bo a little way.
from the spot nhere the men worked; so l Dcgan
to wade along with the water, hero abont np to
my middle. All at once I Mopped, and thought
about where I nas at work.
rTAir troy did Ihr iralrr run f
My head turned hot, and my temples throhlicd
with th thmii'lit. If Iwcnt the wrong way I
should be lost lost in this horrible darkness to
siuk,atlast, into th foul, black stream, to be
devoured by the rats, or else be choked by the
foul gawes that m nt be lurking down here in
these dart recccses.
A-ain the horror of thick darkness come upon
me-I shrieked out wildly, amltlie cry went ech
oing through tho sewer, sounding hollow and
wihl till it faded away. But once more I got the
better of it, aud per laded myself that I bad "lily
cried aloud to scare the rats. What would I not
have given for a stout stick as a defence against
attack, as I grouped my way ou. feeling convinc
ed that I should be right if I crawled down
stream, when a little rt flection wenld have told
me that np stream must be the nght-way, for I
must have been borne down by the water. But I
could not reflect, for my brain seemed in a Mat
of fever, and now and then my teeth chattered
as though I had the ague.
I grouped on for quite a quarter of on hour,
when the horrid tbongbt came upon me that 1
:.... .,... in, I Brain I tried to lean np
was K"UK "'"e'i e r
against the wall, which seemed to canse my feet
tT slip from nmlcr me. 1 felt no cold, for .the
n-rsniratiou droiuied from me, as I frantically
turned lack and tried to retrace my steps, guid
ing myself by rnuning my hand against the wall
where every now and then it eutered the month
of a small drain, when, sonnre as it did. there
was a senffle and rush, and more than once I
touched the cold slippery body of a rat a touch
that made mo start uack as though shot.
On I went, and on. and still no scaffold, and no
gleam of gaslight. Thought after thotightgave
fresh horror to my situation, as now 1 .felt cer
tain that in my frautio haste I had taken some
wrong turn, or entered a branch of the main
i . .n.l mt last, completely bewildered, I
rushed headlong on, stumbling and falling twice
over so that I was hslf-chnked in the black wa
ter. But it bad its good effect ; for it pnt a stop
to my wild struggles, which must soon have end
ed in my falling iusenseble into what was certain
death. The water cooled my head, and now,
feeling completely lost, knowing that 1 must
i.- !! n.artr two hours in tbe sewer. I made
up my mind to follow the stream to its month in
"the Thames, where, if the tide was down, I could
get from the mud on to the wharf or bank.
go once more I struggled on. following the
, stream slowly, for what seemed to be hours, till
at last, raising my nana, i ioana tusi i coma um
I kept bearing the rata I had drivea "before me;
and now thatl stopped and was quite still, half
a dozen of them made a . rush to get past me, and
the little fight which followed even now, gives
me the horrors. Fd hardly room to move; bntl
killed one by squeezing him, when the others
backed off, but not till my face was bitten and
running with blood.
At last, half-dead, I tried to back ont, for the
place seemed to stifle me; and I poshed myself
back a little way, and then I was stopped, for
the skirts of my jacket filled up what little space
had been left, and I felt that I was wedged in,
stnek fast!
Now came the horrors again, worse than ever.
Tbe hot blond seemed to gosh into my eyes; J
felt half suffocated; and, to add to my sufferings,
a rat, that felt itself, as it were, penned np, fast
ened upon my lip. It waa Its last bite, however,
for, half-mad as I felt then, my teeth bad closed
in a moment upon tbe vicious beast, and it was
dead.
I made ono more struggle, but could not move,
I was so knocked np; and then I fainted.
It must have been some time before I come to
myself; bnt when I did, the first sound that I
heard was a regular tramp, tramp, of some one
walking over my head, and I gave a long yell
for help, when, to my great joy, the step halted,
audi shrieked again, and tbe sweetest sound I
have ever heard in my life came back. It was a
voice shouting
"Hallo!"
"Stuck fast in the drain!'' I shonted, with all
the strength I had left; and tbeu I swooned off
once more, to wake np a week afterward out of a
tirniti.fever sleaMi ill a hostlital.
It seems 1 hail got within a few yards of a gra
ting which was an end o' the drain, andJhe close
quarters made the rats sn fierce. The policeman
had heard my shriek, and had listened at the
grating, and then pit help; bnt he was ouly
laughed at, for they could get no further answer
out o' me. It was then alwut half-past three ou
a Summer's morning; and though the grata was
got oH.-n, they wens about to give it np, saying
tbn noliernmn had been hnnihncccd: when a
couple o' sweeps come up, aud the little 'nn offer
ed to go down back'ards, and he did, and came
ont directlv afhsr. savinc that he could feel a
man's head with his toes.
That policeman has had many a glass nt my
expense since, and I hope, he'll have many more;
and when be tells me the story, which I like to
hear but always take care it shall be when
Polly's away he says he knows 1 should have
liked to see'how they tore up that drain in no
time. To willed mere s always sucn an ecuo iu
my heart, that it comes qnite natural to say
"You're right, my boy!"
ECbS)TK. rEVUC SKA.
BY" COL. f FOBSfEY.
Called to Washington on official business, I
find myself this warm and breezy morning of the
30th of May seated at the open window of my
old room at the Slills Honse, once more looking
over into the sacred grounds of Arlington, where
twenty thousand Union soldiers sleep their last
sleep, and silently yst sternely sentinel the capi
tal they saved. And this is Decoration" Day !
The departments are closed in honor of the dead
heroes. Prom Maine to Mexico, wherever tbe
grave of a Union soldier is to be found, it will be
visited by some Union man or roraan.
Such graves aa these are plU fi n shrines.
Shrmea to ns code or creed naaaed t
The Delphian vales, tbe Ilaatlsaa '
The Xeeeaa ef the mind.
The fervor with whleh .Decoration Day i Ten
erated proves the undTwlre of pnr people for
their country. The sentiment is a conviction
that grows with every hour, ane. rifkrns only to
be renewed in freshness aud vigor Decoration
Day is, therefore, another Independence Day;
precisely as the abolition of human slavery in
18! gave force to the abolition of British sur
veillance in 1776. But it was more than this.
It was the intellectual disenthralment of fonr
millions of blacks and thirty millions of whites.
It revolutionized the wicked work of ages of mis
rule. It wrought in less than nine years the de
struction of the evils of almost as many centn-
$teftNmtf.
TUG OEACOV8 PEWEIb
nrwriUallO. STODDaBU.'
BMXCIXa OB SBKAVKM W1TB UsV
The time for toil is past and night haeeonte.
The but and saddest of the harvest eves r
Worn net with labor long sad wearlaoaae,
Drooping and faint, the reapers hasten hosse.
Each Udsned with his sheaves.
IatoftheUborers.TbytretIgam. -'
Lard ef the harvest ; and Thy astrit grieves
That I am burdened not so mneh with grain
Aa with heaviness of heart sad brain.
Master, behold my sheaves t
Tew, light, and worthless, yet their trifling weight
Through all my fame a weary aching leave ;
Tor long I atruggled with my hapless fate.
And SUM. and toiled till It waa dark and late
Yet these are all my aheavea !
Tall weft I knew I hare more taers thaa wheat
Brambles, and (lowers, dry stalks and withered leaves;
Therefore 1 blush and weep, and at Thy feet
I kneel down reverently and repeat,
-iiaster, behold my sheaves! '
IlowtlierJnarsna,tlttsteriiie heavily, ": '
With evening dewa upon their folding loavea.
Can claim no valae or utility i
Therefore shall fragrance and beauty be
The glory of my aheavea.
r
Se do I gather aires gth and nape anew ;
For well 1 know Thy patient love pereeiveai
Kot what I did, but what 1 strove to de ;
And though the full ripe ears he assail sad few.
Thou wilt accept my shesres;
isnJI.Si
A BAIL. CAB SCBftK.
In the regular evening meeting
That tbe church bolda every week.
One night a listening angel aat
To bear them pray and apeak.
It puuled tbe soul of the angel
Why some to that gathering came,
Bnt afxk and sinful hi arts be aaw.
With grief and guilt aflame.
Thev were ailent but said to the angel,
"Our livea have need of Hint !
While doubt; with dull, vague, throbbing pain.
Stirred through tbeir spirits dim.
Ton could see 'twas the regular meeting.
And the regular aeata were filled.
And all knew who would pray and talk.
Though any one might that stilled.
Troni his place In front, near tbe pulpit.
In his hing-accustonied way.
When the Hook waa read, and the hymn was song,
Tbe deacon arose to pray.
First came tbe long preamble
If Titer had opened so. ......
Be had been, ere tbe Lord bia prayers bad beard.
Full fifty fathoms below.
Then a volume of Information
Toured forth, aa if to tbe Lord,
Concerning his waxa and attributes.
And tbe things by llim abhorred.
But not In the list of the latter
Was mentioned the mocking breath
Of tbe hypocrite prayer that is not prayer.
And tbe make-beUeve life in death.
Then he prayed for the church; and the pastor;
And that -aoula might be hie hiro"
Whatever his stipend otherwise
Aud tbe Sunday school; andthecboir;
And tbe swarming hordes ot India;
A nd tbe periahuig, vile Chinese;
And the millions wbo bow to tho Tope or Eomei ,
And the pagan cburcbee of Greece ;
And the outcast remnants of Jadab,
Of whose guilt he had much to ten
Tie prayed, or be told tbe Lord be prayed.
For eyery thing out of IlelL
"ow. If all of that burden had really
Been weighing npnn bis soul.
Twoukt have sunk him through to the China aide
And raised a hill over tbe bias.
Twas the regular evening meeting.
And the regular prayers were made,
Bnt the listening angel told the Lord
That only tbe silent prayed.
TBI OBFUX.
A littlo farther on, lo! came issuing, like a
Dryad's daughter, front tbe gate iu the lane,
sweet little Alice Elleray, with a basket dangling
beneath her arm, going, in her orphan beanty, to
rralllssr Wild HI fSB IBHl 1 IU IU 1UC TIUUUS
Sweet orphan of Woodedge! What would
many a childless pair give for a creature one-half
so beautiful as thou, to break tbe stillness of a
home that wants but one blessing to make it
Kjrfectly happy t Tet there are few or none to
y a hand ou that golden head, or leave a kiss
upon its ringlets. The father of Alico Elleray
was a wild and reckless youth, ami, going to the
wars, died iu a foreign land. Her mother faded
away of a broken heart before she waa eighteen-;
and who was to care for the orphan child of tbe
forgotten freindless I An old pauper, who lives
in that hut, scarcely distinguishable from tbe
sheilings of the charcoal burners, was glad to take
ber from the parish for a weekly mite that helped
to eke ent ber own subsistence. For two or
three years the child was felt a burden by the
solitary widow ; but ere she had reached her fifth
summer, Alice Elleray never left the bnt withont
darkness seemed to overshadow it, never enter-
i ti,. Hnnr without brineine the sunshine.
Where can the small lonely creature have learned
so many tnnes and airs, and snatches of old songs.
main streets, quite fifty feet der grounii. h Jhe ,nd by tht i lhat T WM in
Arter two years in Loudon 1 d "" m i,. wer. aud therefore not Ty far from
change, but this was my nrst """ 7"tu! I the mouth. Bnt here there was a new terror
oitneeartn. i ..it"'- ..: C"
conntrv. but not in snch a concern aa this; woy
a life-cuard might havo walked down it easy ; so
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!.- .l.AM nlswntV Of rOOin IO WOTS. 1M1-
then, mind you, it ain't pleasant work; thsre yon
go, down Udder after ladder, past JPW,
water-pines, and down and down, till you get to
tWesLgertretched acre, the part that yon are
nt worfon, with the dayhgbt i high njsas
through boarus,Bnu K","i.T--r',:';,:-rr
it's no liso to yon wlio are working bj the light
of flaring gas. There in front of yon Is the dark,
black arcE; and there behind you is another;
while nnder your feet the foul sbing ;"
ries along, sending up a smell as turns your sil
ver watcfi', and every six penco "drilling yon
have in your pocket, black as the water that
swirls aidbnbtles along. Every word yonspeak
souuds hollow and echoing, whde it goes whis
pering and rumbling along the dark arch till
17Z. .Y.-...1. :t h. rnine. when all at once yen hear
it aeain quite plain in a way as would make yon
l.Wfeiu" 1 a . ,., - l.J-V nn lilt o
ump as mucu u u -" - "" " -
t a . .1 1 intra, whet wettaw
. mnnwr iiniinnru tutu uc ne a, -.
tint t.ik almnt lumnlnz. nothing made me
" . r - .-,. .
jump more than wnen a on oi son, or a swno
WaS lOO'-eUCU lip auuvn, aou Lwn imuiu), uu-,
I've seen more than one chap change color; and
I know it's been from the thought that suppose
the earth caved in, where should wo bet ho
donbt the first crash in would do It, and there'd
be "an end of workmen and foreman; bnt there
seemed something werry awful in the idea o" be
ing buried alive.
i
Where were wo all on the 30th of May eighteen
hundred and sixty-one t As I ask the question,
Hubert E. Lee's Arlington house shines ont white
from the dark green Toliago or tne soutnern sme
of the Tototnac, and seems to answer: "Ten
vears ago this day my owner had.jnst tendered
an unstained sword, with a troubled heart, to
his country's foe, Teu years ago Abraham Lin
coln, Stephen A. Douglas, Stouewall Jackson,
James Buchanan, Edward D. Baker, Howell
Cobb, Jehn B. Floyd, Lewis Cass, Owen Lovejoy.
were living; they have since gone before the
Great Judge, and have answered all their mortal
deeds. . Ten years ago the thousands of slain
around me, and 'thrre hundred thousand more,'
were active and intelligent men, nsetui lainers,
husbands, sous and. brothers. But these dead
have left behind lessoua and warnings that will
not die."
"Ab, gentlemen," said Frederick Douglass, the
renllr irrent lender of the colored race of America.
yesterday afternoon, "who shall tell the story of
these last ten years I I can not. To me all is
changed; and what an unutterable, Indiscribable
change! From slavery to liberty, from ostra
cisim to equality, from ignorance tp self-respect,
from sin to scnoois, ironi me lasn to iuo iigni,
from the blndgeou to the ballot, from a coontry
bound in chains to a nation robed in glory, from
a capital that seemed te lie rooted in despotism
to a great e'.ty, freo and wholesome and bene
ficent. Find your orator to tell us of these mar
vels. I have no speech to describe, thongh my
heart cherishes them all."
"Blessed be this right," said another of the
same race on another occasion. "Fivetiuics have
1 been sold into slavery in Washington three
times on the block, and twice with the ball and
chain on my feet ; and now I am free, and all my
children and their children's children."
And what could John M. Langston, the law
prf-or of the Howard University, say t Tho
son ofa gentleman of Virginia by his own slave,
he lives to represent tho intellect of his father
and his accepted offspring, and to houor and bless
his mother. .
Bnton thissaercil day otuer memories are re-li-l
I n-ooll na I write, the face, the form, the
character and history of James S. Jackson, of
Kentucky, who sleeps wttb tne niesseii union
mattvrs. Tho readers of these hxsty anecdotes
will perhaps recollect my reference to him on tho
;.,!,, r mv Muzf-iina snrerb. on Missouri aveuue.
affer I bad been elected Clerk of the House of
Representatives, in December of 18K. JacKson
waa afterward a Whig lleprescntative iu the
i-i.;ri.--itvnth f.'ontm-Ni from Kentucky, and
when"electeil was about forty. He was chosen as
apro-slatery man, nith intense attachment to
. ... . , . . .!.. 1.... M...1 ,lia nlil
lienry nay, joun u. iniicuucu, .., ... -
leaders of that school of politics, but also with in
tense attachment to the Union. I ueyer met htm
uutil I met him as a Kepresentative in the great
Congress preceediug tbo reliellion. His genial
nature, his extremely handsome face and athletic
form, his eloquence of speech and magnetism of
manner, attracted me; aud yet, although some
what differing iu politic he as the ideal of the
old Whig party in its best days, and I as the ideal
of the belter days of the Democracy we coa
lesced in ardent devotiou to the Union. He was
agaiust me for Clerk, yet he was glad I was
elected not because he cared for me, but be
cause he desired to rebuke the administration of
Mr. Buchanan, whose course on the Kansas ques
tion he did not hesitate to denounce as unutter
ably bad.
On this Decoration Day, as Hook ent upou Ar
lington Heights aud hear the guns thuudenag
over the graves of those who perished that their
Country Ullgui Hie, i iuiusoi ..-- - ; --,
and of an incident related to me by one or bis de
voted Keutucky friends, now holding a high and
boner-able position under General Grant s admin
istration. Jacksou left his seat in the House to
offer his life to the Bepublic. In doing this he
felt that he was separating from many near and
dear friends in Kentucky, all of whom, equally
devoted to the Union, Were also devoted to sla
very. He had served several months in the war
when slavery was abolished in tbe District of
Columbia. His old associates, beleiytng they
could swerve him from his fidelity to his country,
conceived that emancipation woniu greany uis
appoint him, and one of their number wrote him
a letter, stating now that tho Yankees had shown
that this was simply and abolition war, he ought
to leave the Federal armv and come over to bis
old friends, in which case a better position await
ed him. This letter, owing to circumstances un
necessary to relate here, fell Into the hands of
his brave wife, a Kentucky woman. She was so
indiguant at the attempt fo debauch her husband
that she tore it up, but immediately after, be
lieving that he had better see it, womanlike,
gathered the fragments and sent the missive for
ward to her husband. He received it in tbe com
pany of friends, laughed beartly at it, and rerer
Jcd to the Confederate who had written it as a
capital good fellow, bnt as one who had wholly
misunderstood his character. Among-those who
beard of the letter was tho well known Brigadier
General William Kelson, snosequently killed by
General Jefferson C. Daviain a personal rencontre
at the Gait Honse, in Louisville, on the 9th of
September, letti. Nelson remarked, after tbe let
ter to Jackson had been read, that tbe writer
seemed to know kit ssaa or he never would have
. it Thia observation was reported to
Jackson by some convenient friend, who belonged
In a late nnmber of the Anbnrn (X. V.) Jswri
ean is this incident:
It r. as late. The lamps of our cirburued dim
ly. In one sent were a "happy couple" rejoiciug
rut a carpet-bag, two liauil-lMixes, a naskei, a
brown paper parcel, a "sleeping cherub. bud
denly cherub a girl.of some three j ears' experi
ence in this strange world awoke froui one of
those long, undisturbed slumbers that are among
the prerogatives of childhood, and (.limbed up so
as to stand aud look over the bark of the seat.
Two care-worn, travel-weary, and half awake
men sat directly in front of the little creature-.
They looked as if they had been on board rail
road cars for a month, and had journeyed from
the regions about snnsetv The great, curious
eyes of the child fell upon thun. She scanned
carefully the faco of each, and one would bare
deemed 'her to have been an infantile physiogno
mist. Preseutly one of them looked at ber. It
was evident that she rather liked him of the two,
nnd had abont made no her mind to speak trr
him -r for instantly her little voice was beard, as
sue piped out tue query:
"Does yon love little girls T
The man looked at ber amoment rather gruffly,
and then replied: '".
"JJo I don't."
A shade of disappointment and surprise was in
stantly dagnrrreotyped upon the countenance of
the child, but passed away when sbo replied.
"Yes, you do."
Tbe man roused himself and took another look.
He was evidently both puzzled and interested,
and said, "How do yon knSw t"
And she replied, "Canse you looked as if yon
did."
This thawed him out some, and be said, "I
have got a little girl at home"
The little questioner now evidently felt that
she was nn the right "track ;" and after a look
that showed that thisintelligenee presentedanew
and uncxN-cted view of the affair, renewed the
conversation earnestly, and tbe following collo
qnr ensued:
"Does yon love your little girl T"
"Yes."
"Is she a real good little girl V
"Sometimes she is."
"Is she naughty sometimes t"
"Yes."
"Does she go down in the kitchen whan she
hadn't ought toT "
"Yes. sometimes."
"Do'yon whip your little girl when she is
naughty V
"Sometimes."
"Does she cry when you talk to her, and tell
ber she is nanghty f" ,
"Yes."
"Then do yon whip her t"
"Sometimes." .
"When she says she is sorry, do yon whip her
then!"
"No. never."
The little creature's eyes danced and sparkled
at this, and drawing conclusions, no doubt, from
her own experience, she exclaimed :
"I's real glad, J is!"
Then looking at the other man, who bad re
fused to answer the questiou sho bad put to him,
she said to her newly-made friend with a look of
wonder:
"That man won't speak to me! Doss he love
little girls t" ' , , ....
The man had a heart somewhere, and be thaw
ed out. Rousiughimself, beextended hisbrawny
hand, and said: " ,.
"How do you do, sissy t"
And the littlo creature, not altogether at her
ease, replied:
MIT.. nr.ltV Wi-11 ! llOW's VOll T"
n.. L:. ,inM. nil wltbln henrine-of the colloauv
were moved to tears; the eyes of the parents or
the little prattler were full to overflowing; and
those who were nearest, heard oueof themeu she
had qnestloned say to the other:
"She's a little witch."
And so she was. Her blooming beanty and ber
infantile artlessnesa were powerful enongh to
break through the ronghnees, the weariness, the
reserve, and the indifference of tbe travel-worn
men of the world, and to melt them to tears.
A SBLawu-KaVN BKTCBX.
Aa AaWtlaa: Blery.
Dnring oar tedious passage to the; North, I re
marked, among the steerage passengers, a man
who seemed to keep himself aiiart from tbe rest.
He wore the nniforuTof the loot Artillery, and
sported a Corporal's stripes. Inthe course of the
afternoon 1 stepped before tbe funnel, and, enter
ing inU conversation with him, learned that he
had beeu an invalid and seut home from Canada,
hail passed tbe board at-London, obtained a pen
sion of asbilliug a day,' and was returning to a
border-Tillage, where he had been born, to ascer
tain whether any ofa family were living, from
whom be bad been separated for nineteen years.
He casually admitted that during this lonrf luter
val be had held no communication with his rela
tions ; and I eet him down accurdinly as some
wild scape-gjaca who had stolen away from home,
wboee,bappineas his follies bad compromised too
often. He showed meTiisTjiseharge ;his charac
ter was excellent but it ouly went to prove how
much men's conduct will depend upon the cir
cumstances nnder which they act. He bail been
nineteen years a soldier a man "under authori
ty" obedieut to another's will subservient to
strict discipline, was scarcely a free agent for
himself, aud yet a contented and happy man.
He returned home bis own master, and older hy
twenty years. Alas! It waa a' fatal free ageucy
for him, for time bad not brought u iadoin. The
Stewart told me lie run riot tv bile his means al
lowed it : hail missed a passage t ire, and hail
on the nm-evdln)!. eveuini? come on board when
Lnot a shilling remained to waste iu drunken dis
sipation. 1 ileaiml tuo poor roue suouiii vm sup
plied wilh some little comfortH during the voy
ageand nhen lauded at Berwick, gave him a
.HO!;,,., a,,,,, tu Hui.r Mm ti. r:ir!i his native Til-
age, wGere ho had obtained vague intelligence
that some aged members of the family might still
bv found.
A few evenings afterward, I was. sitting in the
parlor of one of the many little inns 1 visited
while rambling ou the banks of the Tweed, when
the waitress informed me that a "soger was
speckin' after the Colonel." He was directed to
attend the presence, and my fellow voyager, tbe
artillery man, entered the chamber, and matle his
military salaam.
"I thought yon were now at Jedburgh."
"I went there, sir, bnt there had not boon any
of mv familvformanv rears residing iutheplaee.
I met an old packer on the road, and he tells me
there are some persons In thisvillageof my name.
I came here to make inquiries, and hearing that
yonr honor was in tbe hoqse I made bold to ask
for you."
"Have yon walked overt"
"Yes, sir."
"Tis a long walk. Go down and get some sup
per before you commence Inquiries.''
The soldier bowed and left the room, and pres
ently the host entered to give me directions for a
rout among tbe Cheviots, which I had contem
plated to take the following day. I mentioned
tbe soldier's errant.
"Sure enough," returned the host, "there are
an anld dacent couple of the name here. Wbatis
the soger's name.
"William," I repled ; for by that name his dis
charge aud pension were filled np.
"ill slip across the street to tbe aid folks,"
said Boniface, "and ask them a few questions."
The episode of humble life that followed was
afterward thus described hy my host :
He found the ancient people, seated at the fire,
tue oiu man reauing a cnamcr in uia uiuie,
A CHEAT 8EUB.CT.
nraucr uar.
If
'fT
Mv friend here's a secret.
By which you may thrive ;
rm fifty years old. '
And mx wfa Xsrty-ave.
A
oiM,a aasone nsnnues.
The wedding-guests said
'Wh.awenttothecharch i '
With the priest crsl, were wedVjtfy , .
Tbjf.tllrtylog years pest f ' V . "n ti
And I ran avow. , - jg.,, j, ,,
one was no more a beanf r
To m then, than aowb. ! litV J-i'l "
Tor never the M-athofa' ' -Si-e Tint
Petulant frown , .. . ,, . j
Was plowed with Its furrows
Iter young ruses down?!' - j r Son
Andalin,liVeaglrI.ws'en "K"1 -." '
IterpraUeslBiralc' W ,:' fe- .,.1
llsr heart fsiilv blushes -i '
ttorlf through nerrheear"15 .-
- .il. J..: .-
,i r. 'a -til
if:jsibt
Her smile I more tender
For bri lma brlehtt '
And tbe little bit powder
Thst mates her hair whiter
And all the t. .atirnae
That shows through her face.
In my eyes, are only
Like grace up n grace.
For stnl we are lo.-rrs.
As I am allver
Tbuae.hl,eir,amnfty
And she's forty dre!
And here's half the secret
I meant to untold.
She don t kuow my friend,
Not the bast bow to scold !
i
Sot does .ho get pettish, .,
AndaulktonpiMt,
i More ,,,.,,. .
H e never rU.utf w,(
5ilrr',u,,"eret.'..,3 .
Thst v.,u. .., rirf "a
I kept ber a , ' if--
In making her ey.j
And if yim but wed on
My iatteni. you'll thrUe,
l'rL air. and tlftv.
My wue. forty-live !
'.rrtuiquy
itas Tl'-t
ialK s.
Ilfjl)
IS !T1
.11'
t
creeping np me, so to speak, for from my waist
the water now touched my chest, and soon after
my arm-pits; when I stopped, not daring to
trust myself to swim, perhaps a mile, when I felt
so weak that I could not bave gone a hundred
yards.
I know in my disappointment I gave a bowl
like a wild beast, ami turned again to hare a
hard fight to breast tne rnsning water, wnicn
nenriv tooic me en mv irxn. xmis iuc iroi tu uemiu
lent me help, and I got on and on again till I felt
myself in a turning which I soon knew was a
smaller sewer, and from thence 1 reaensd anoth
er, where I bad to stoop; bnt tbe jrater was
shallower, not above my knees, and ax last much
lees deep than that.
Here I knelt down to rest, and the position
brought something else from my heart; and af
... - -i,;i. .till atonninir. I went on. till, having
passed downs upo" dozens of drains, I determin
ed to creep np one, ana i urn.
P'raps yon won't think it strange as I dream
and groan in bed sometimes, when I tell you
what followed. ... .a,
I crawled on, and on, and on, in the hopes itMt
.t... nt.u r w. :.i .anM ij1 nnder one of tbe
street gratings, and I kept staring ahead m the
hopes of catching a gleam of light, till at last the
place seemed so tight that I dared go no farther,
for fear of being fixed in. So I began to back
very slowly, and then, feeling it rather bard
work, stopped for a rest, -.,,,
Itwaaqnlredryberej bptKuifflns cm U treat,
t ..mark, anil reunited in a challenge from
!!Ii,... o"v.imn." notbinz uVcTirited a mortal
'mr . .. . . .r " e a. - L1. I . - .... t.-
meeting but tbe intervention oi tee iiws losing at tne onng pose..
,. ."V.-.. t .1.. frlMul nf ejAflh who CSRIS
rm : i.:1 l..l e-,..tf t,e m.to.liea nf
fairy land t She is now in her tenth year, nor an I to the school of men who always report unpleas-
idler in her solitus. If yon wish for flower brace
let for the neck oi a cnoeea one, wnose pennmes
may mingle with tbe bosom balm ef her virgin
beantr, the orphan of Woodedge will wreath
it with blossoms crept before tbe sun bath melted
the dsw on leaf or petaL Will yon be for carry
ing awav with yon to tbe far-off city some pretty
little svivan toy, to remind yon of Ambleside and
Bydal and other beautiful names of beantifnl lo
calities near the lucid waters of Wildermerel
Then, lady, purchase, at little cost, from the fair
basket-maker, an ornament for yonr parlor, that
will -not disgrace its fanciful furniture; and as
.. .: vnnr ilreamv needle-work, will recall
the green forest glades of Brathay or Ualnrtb.
Industrious creature; eh day is to thee, in thy
simplicity, an entire life I Alt inouguu-, au .cl
ings, arise and die in peace between snnneo nm
sunset. What earest thou for being an orphan ;
knowing, as thon well dost, that God is thy father
and thy mother, and that a prayer to him bnngs
health, food and sleep to the innocent!
s o s
Letting drop a enrtsey, taught by Xatnre,the
mother of thoHr... aii; Fllerav. the orphan
.,- 3 . .T". ".7. . V' :. u:j
i.ooaeage, without watting to ne isim ui
den, trills, as if from a silver pipe, a wild, bird
like warble, that in its cheerfulness has now and
then a melancholy fall, and at the dose of tbe
song, hers are the only eyes that are not dimmed
' the haze of tears! Then away she glides
with a thankful smile, and dancing over the green
sward, like an uncertain sunbeam, lays the treas
ure, won bv her Imantv t, .mi -j t. u...
i ?..h.ei. Up ?-f.h'r old Boardlan, who blesses
her with the uplifting of withered hands!
A cop.besposdbxt in Braid gives a "shiver
ing" description of the kind of pets they have in
that coontry. He says it U quite a convenience
to have anacondas in the cellars to destroy rata
and mice. People do not generally have the
i .:.! .naicea fur tint nnrnose: tbeyare
only from ten to twenty feet long, and are fel
dom seen, as they live in the walls of the cellar.
which are very me riseo. sucj -to ...
about the streets, and sold to those who have lost
their pet reptile, or whoever may chance to need
i ui,.r. mnarallv of smaller size, are
kept as pets in hoases, box to prevent their mU
ehief they are necessarily chained. Daring tbe
prevalence of yellow fever, tbe summer past, the
centagien was more fetal to them than the. fam
ilies iu w hich they were kept. g L
Newspafeb BoaROWBRS. Heat TPrVedltora
talk to tbe borrowing individuals: " '"
"Got a paper to spareT"
"Yes sir; here's one of onr last. Would yoo
like te subscribe, sir, and take it regularly T"
"I would, but I'm too poor."
m... . I...S omo fmm fhe rlrems eost. nltT
4U111, nin" j .. ...- . - -- , jfs
cents; lost urns irora nis jara. iu.j
cents; liquor, judging from tbe smell, fifty cents,
making a dollar and a half actually thrown away,
and then begging for a newspaper, alleging that
he was too poor to pay for it!
That a wdm we can saving v saw -v's" "
It taken all onr learning to be simple.
John J. Crittenden, the friend of both, who came
from Louisville to tne camp ana steppea onwecu
the young Hotspurs. Bnt they never spoke un
til after one of the sabscqnent battles, to which
Nelson displayed almost snperhaman bravery.
Jackson's cavalry regiment could nut be called
inte the fight, aud he lay chafing at a distance
from the field. Bnt when be came into camp and
found that praise of his adversary was in the
month orevery soldier, he" rushed np to htm and
threw bis arms around his neck and said: "I
can never be the enemy ofa man who has fought
l,pv.lr fnr thm nM rlaO'.n
n..o iw.h ilie.1 in 1f2 Jackson at the head of
his regiment in tne battle oi rerry vine, neoiucay,
and Nelson, as I have said, by the bands of Jeff
erson C. Davis a brave and noble solder, now in
v. York-, whom Nelson had grossly insulted.
f Jackson and Nelson were both men of strong con
victions. Tuey were men oi siorra nun icmpct
bat of noble hearts. They loved Clay, Critten
j. itr-b.iridre- Preston and Prentis of tbe
Louisville JownuU. To go into the Union cause
agaiust all their social prejudices and friends waa
a great struggle, bnt go they did. They died
yoSng, but tbey had lived a long experience.
Kelson was a eommander m the navy, and died a
Brevet Major General in the army. Jackson had
just got int. Conpess wbea the war broke ont.
andllied before he finished his Congressional
career. They are both in Heaven.
It costs three and and a haUcenU to get yonr
hair ent, and-a half cent to get shaved, ir, Ger-
mBy;,
was his custom always before he and bis aged
Iiartuer retired for tne nignt ro rear. '1 no ian
ord explained the object of the soldier's visit,
and enquired if any of .her children answered the
description of tho wandnrer.
"It is our Jack!" exclaimed the old woman
passionately; "and the pnir ne'er-do-weel has
come to close his pnir mother's eyes."
"No," said the landlord, "the man's name is
Wolly."
"Then he's na our bairn' " returned the old man
with a heavy sigh.
"Weel, weel His will be done!" said his help
mate, turning her blue and faded eyes to heaven ;
"I thought the prayer I so often mads wild be
granted, and Jack wnd come hame an get my
blessin'ereldied." "
"He has! be has!" exclaimed a broken voice,
and the soldier, who hail followed the host un
prsceived, and listened at tbe cottage door, rnsh
ed into tbe room and dropped kneeling at his
mother's feet. For a moment she fixed her eyes
with a fixed and glassy stare upou tbe wanderer.
Her hand woe laid npen his head herliw iiarted
as if to pronounce the promised blessing lint no
sound issued, and she slowly leaned forward on
the bosom of the long lost prodigal, who clasped
her in his arms.
"Mither! Mitber! speak and bless mc."
Alss! the power of speech was gone forever!
Jor, like grief, is often fatal te a wornent frame.
The snirt hail ralmlr passed away the parent
had lived to see and bleu her lost sob, and ex
pire in tbe arms of one, who, with all Ins faults,
appeared to bave been ber earthly favorite.
sL,r:.s r fr
.JIHS a c. tvu.
A IBIOTIC NPBXatTBTBlFT.
A marked iustanee in which "a fool and his
money soon parted" has lately reacted its culml
natien in New York. A young man named But
tle eamo to his majority abont two years since,
his twenty-first birth-day bringing him into con
trol ofa foitnne of two hundred and fifty then
sand dollars. He soon married a Southern lady,
who, it would seem, had to an Uncommon degree
a weakness pecnlirly pertaining to Southern wo
menfondness for jewelry and dress for she
permitted ber bnshaud to load her down, in their
first year of married life, with thirty thousand
dollars in diamonds, and also sported a six thou
sand dollar wardrobe. This idiotic spendthrift
took very expensive rooms at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, drove his fast horses, and the two devoted
th.ie tlmo to euttlne- a swell cenerallr. He,
also, gambled in Wall street. On tbe Black Ir n
day he lost three thonsand dollars, and the ex
penees the first year for himself and wife were
SOme Slaty inonssnu uoiiaas. am."im.uj ...j'.u.y
impecunious be sold his horses, and changed his
boarding place, going to tbe Gilsey Honse, where
he forged a draft in payment of hU board, was
detected and arrested. His friends cast big abont
to help htm ont. discovered that be bail sold for
lees than half tbeir cost, his wife's diamonds
back to the jewelers of whom tbey were pur
chased; that be lost that money in three days in
stocks, and that he had secretly pawned bis
wife's wardrobe, and was not only a forger but
a beggar; tbe only son of one of tbe old style
rv! . L t. I.. kallll slia wiwls one.
cessfully", and died in the delusion that his son
would not be forced to work for a living.
Tbe wire, it is said, was jgoorant of tbe condi
tion of things until tbe arrest of her boaband as
a forger. Great sympathy ia expressed for her.
And yet with sense on her part, tbe wreck might
not have come. She pilled oo the dry goods and
jewelry without stint, knowing, if she knew any
thing, that none but silly women make sacb
show-eases of themselves. She indulged In the
idleness, tbe reeklessurss of a fashionable hotel,
and she bad bo ambition bnt to spend money,
eclipse all competitors ia Central Park, and
.a .sssuteMBlllaVa fn- RBnwflilnMa bV
tnrow wy amt whj-ws".-....- , .-.-.
of bowl inaoieuct ireeaom iium -
THE BEAl'TV OF PI A 31LMIC.
Tho deed is accomplished. My wife has got a
piano, anil now farewell tho tranquil mind fare
well content and the evening pajicrs anil the big
cigars, that make ambition virtue oh fare well!
ye mortal engines, whose rude throats the iioinor
tal Jovo's dead clamors counterfeit; lint stop, I
ca t't bid them farewell, for one of them has.' just
arrived. It camo on a dray.. Six tueu carried it
iuto the parlor, aud it gruutrd awfully. It
weighs a ton, sluueslike a mirror, and has carved
Cupula climbing up its limine And such lnngs
whew ! My wife basveomtueuced to prncticv, and ,
the first time she touched the machine 1 thought
we were iu tbe midst ofa thunder storm, and the
lightening hail struck the crockery chest. The
cat, with tail erect, took a bee line for a particular
friend on tho back fence, demolishing a six-shilling
pane of glass. The baby awoke, and the lit
tle fellow tried his beat to beat the instrument,
but be didn't do it it brat him.
A teacher has been introduced Into the house.
He says he is the hist of Napoleon's grand army.
Iln wears . lit!- uion.tnclie. links at me fiercely.
I smells of garlic, nnd goes by tho name' of Count
Kuu-away-and-never-conie-baeV-ngaln-byJ Ho
cbitis, I bave tu praise its tone, ami
vited guests are playing I havo to say,
ite!" "delightfuU" "heavenly!" and
trash, while, at the m? time. I kno
i life
and who would attempt u
selves. Cltttliud Herald.
v- . Ji.nm ease nenrlins- in Ohio the arounds
of tbe husband's application are that hia wife In
sist that he shall kill the eW eat that hat been
with them ten year.. He aay. "it to r lbeue
... v-. ... .. .Ilk tho, animal, list tbe Job is
toVnYnch 'trash of hi. -Ml. 'he U.toleebl.
health,as at present." He ""? " "J"; " J" j " .min, repudiation of all tbe duties
shot fourteen rifle WU lg." c gby U wasted on such people, and
herhalfapotiod of strychnine, committed tan- ot tue. o . j
karl on her with ? PiteMorm.iM oniyec -- "bie who would shirk responsibility,
perceptible is a trifle more , toaeto - "Tw would attempt to live solely for them-
a nay winnow ww w. a .?-- .-
most peculiar concatenation of fortuitous eil
enmstanceaon record.
Tms girl seems to have it bad. She write:
"Ont of the glare and heat aad weariness ofthe
great ball given by Milwsuke to tbe Dnk
Alexis, I brought picture for my shadow gallery.
The gas light, rouge, and peari powder, and hot
house pertome that surrounded it have all fallen
away, just as the dark calyx tuat suae u .--ty
and fragrance of the rose-bad shrivel into
...-. 7T.i .k. .,r.JAl. ntsla. od left
me a flower as sweat and simple aa ever bloomed
in the summer wiMwooa."
Tax origin ofthe kisa U tiaeed to wto rlnk
ing. After a shrewdmanhadeanghthU wife
sucking hU finest wine throagi iiebojR bole
with a straw, the raatom beeorae Sf?
bands to kisi tbe lip of their -di3
might diaoover the 5lity of theuv $
r.kStim, AndsTtevwataeUUWoWeoopie.
I over agam of"wo-ati aad wi-a.
played an extract de opera the other night. Us
ran bis Ungors throngli his half twice, then grin
ned, then be cocked bis eyes up at tbe ceiling,
like a monkey limiting Hies, then down'eamo one
of bis lingers, and I heard a delightful sound, sim
ilar to that produced by a crwekroach, dancing
upon the tenor string of a fiddrl. Down camo
another finger, and I was -reminded of the wind
whistling through a knot hole in a ben roop.
llo touched his thumb, nnd 1 thought I was in
an orchard listening to tho distant braying of. a
jackass. Now he nin his fiugrrs alonjj the keys,
and I thought of a lmy rattling a slicknpon'a
picket fuure. All of n snddott ha stopped, and I
thought something had hapm-tied. Tbeu came
down both lists, aud oh. Lord! such a uobie was
never heard before.
I thonght a hnrrieane had struck the house,
and the walls were caving in. I imagined I waa
iu the cellar, and a ton of coal as falling pa my
head. I thought the machiiio had burst, wheu
the Infernal noise stopped, and I beard my wife
ejaculate :
"Kxiraisito!."'
"What theducu ia the matter f"
The answer was ; ,
"Why, dear1, that's La'Soranaiihus ! "
"D n Sardnanbua! " thought I, and th Count
rolled np bis sheet of paier. le calls it music ;
but for tbe life' of, me, I can't make it, look like
anything else than a rail fence wit h'a lot of ju
veuile niirgrrs climbing over it. Before that in
strument uf torture came iuto the house, I could
enjoy myself, but now every luarned woman in
the neighborhood must lie ilititrd to ber the
new piano, 'and uvcry time tlie inasien uw'
shrieked out, lit a locomotive with tho bron
chitis, I bave tu praise it tone, and nhen i the i In-
all snch
w just aa
u ,i .'...:. .. . Mind codfish. There are
more tuning hammers thaiicomfortsinonr house,
and draw all the wandering minstrels in the City
hand organs, fiddles, tamborines, rattling rmne
and fish horns. I.et juvenile raeukeys crawl in
at my windows in search of three eentpiecea
let me be awakened at midnight by th cry of
"mnnler!" ring the fire bells and have a devil
"of atiinegenerallyw-do all this, and I wllltto
complain, but banish the piano ! Mine ha got
to go. -I am going to launch the infernal machine
ont of the window the first dark night, and my
friends; I advise yon to sleep with cotton in yonr
cars, or wnen sue goes ci sjnta . ... jw..
think you've fallen out of bed or a fallen star baa
gone to roost upon yonr housetop. For the in
foima'inu of "Young America," 1 will state that
all ths pieces of bras wire and ivory keye they
are welcome to, but the skeleton I want for a re
frieator. ,,
ii ,
A rr.W days before bis death, Humphrey Mar
shall related a strange dream which he bait tne
night before, to a party ef friends at the Capiw
Hotel in Frankfort. Tlie party included 'en"al
Marshall, ex-Gor. Charles Anderson, Weiit.uov.
Carlisle and Gen. Dodge. The subject of '"
natural manisfestatlons and PrernVinen.vV,!i3
nnder discussions, wbeu '-a"j, .'..
turned to Carlisle and remarked: n.bd'"n;
gularand moat vivid dreaui l't n bt. Id my
sleep a spirit appr.red 1-efore uie anuV "
I knew of Judge Davis, the ""fetf-v?
Reform Convent on. My reply was thatl knew
very little aUint him. Theu study bis record
make yourself thoroughly master of it,' juid
Th- nneaerfce 'for the couutry la on the eve of
ca eS with which on Vto ?
edTlWroMf'" "I l.-.kl continued the gen
eral, "to the part of tbe Heavens indicated, and
saw before me a rsditical panorama, and from
rea to year I behold my own name reevrdef) -v.
n isWl was reached, and after that itvwaa
seen no more. I &""", ,,1,! "1
satisfied of lt-I shall live till 1S.W
Caste county, Ky- seems to be a wonderful
, s ...4n;i. Them la- a natural bridge
there 9fet in the span, 196 feet high and U
r-.t wide, arched below and level on the top; nn-
St Ives, in Cornwall. England, wonld teem to
be'a curious sort of a place. Wo all remember
i. :, ;. UM t have turned out on a memorable
occasion six wives, wta six east aud xkit
spice, ami all tne re oi ll. i uo sia, sntiuj
uieans exhansted tbeexeentric section ofthe pop
ulation. A certain Mr. John KnilL who waa at
onetime collector of the port, made a will, "J
1.1.1. .. l-r ranJ. t.w tm arotinn ,,f nn obeluuc
to his memory, with, the injunction tbt"oo
a- . . ..!:.. nsiilarr tartD TcM v
Then there are two wonderful (trsauns, one caiiea
the Big Sinkey and theother the Wttle Binxey.
mTeseare good sized streams." which run i about
two miles aud theu sndMenly.disappnar. But we
haven't done with Carter eonnty jet, It baa a
"natural artesian well," which once played a jet
of fonr feet high; now it U toot high, because
slcbt-eeers, to Bud oat tbe depth, have thrown, so
ranch rubbish into the well. Finally; come tbe
inottouUkuu( wonder amtlemkeseen near
tbe pot, which "reached across the bridge and
bad a body a big a aa oraiaary chain-"
must be absnlately fatal to be bitten hy
hadiy pros, tttimuj mtkt.lf" " W"-
low ana leveion tue Kf,.- . fi . ,. -lrrin umler ten .J- r
der it U. c-cade with a fall of fcrt. "-' 1 'fr. o!d women, ,.! , fiddler, .?''r
mile distant anotner wiia "--: aronwl tbeobelisk,tlvirginar.'U"--);-
eci. - -.7,1. -;
receiving nalT a guinea enc.j . f aia.
iminea." The present year one " "i ild
VS22fitTEZ&g& p -
women, ami tbe
requisite gym
nwttoi on IbetStb.
, .:... r k trntb af Tareh
A cc?bni.wV could nrt write a let: -ter
wi"" u0 Viefona recent batter te W
InXSastkreeeTwon iU ehJ ??
S! fctitttoee rf are undcere.
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